Bid to block children being bullied by mobile

MOBILE phone operators cannot be expected to meet the full cost of protecting children from abusive and inappropriate calls and text messages, an Oireachtas committee was told.

Director of the Irish Cellular Industry Association Tommy McCabe said: “If it is a societal problem, I think the overall cost has to come from the exchequer.”

In the current climate maintaining jobs was the priority issue for any company, Mr McCabe told members of the Joint Committee of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.